Year: 2025

Books received December 2024

Priscillian: the life and death of a Christian dissenter in late antiquity

Diego Piay Augusto  / Gorgias Press, 2024

Reviewed by Winrich Löhr, 

Immersion, identification, and the Iliad

Jonathan L. Ready  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Mar A. Rodda, 

The Christianization of knowledge in late antiquity: intellectual and material transformations

Mark Letteney  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Christian Thrue Djurslev, 

Making sense of myth: conversations with Luc Brisson

Gerard Naddaf, Louis-André Dorion  / McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Catalin Partenie, 

Shaping Roman landscape: ecocritical approaches to architecture and wall painting in early imperial Italy

Mantha Zarmakoupi  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023

Reviewed by Guy P. R. Métraux, 

The Cambridge history of ancient Christianity

Bruce W. Longenecker, David E. Wilhite  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Timothy M. Teeter, 

Hephaistus on the Athenian Acropolis: current approaches to the study of artifacts made of bronze and other metals

Nassos Papalexandrou, Amy Sowder Koch  / Archaeological Institute of America, 2023

Reviewed by Helle Hochscheid, 

Popular culture and the end of antiquity in southern Gaul, c. 400–550

Lucy Grig  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by A. E. T. McLaughlin, 

Money, warfare and power in the ancient world: studies in honour of Matthew Freeman Trundle

Jeremy Armstrong, Arthur J. Pomeroy, David Rosenbloom  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Michael J. Taylor, 

Tokens and social life in Roman imperial Italy

Clare Rowan  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Summer Courts, 

Violence and inequality: an archaeological history

Thomas P. Leppard, Sarah C. Murray  / University Press of Colorado, 2023

Reviewed by Stefanos Gimatzidis, 

La Méditerranée et l’Atlantique: la réception de l’histoire des colonies grecques aux Temps modernes

Nicolas Faelli  / Presses de l'Université Laval, 2023

Reviewed by Orel Beilinson, 

“Il coro disvela una legge segreta.” James G. Frazer fra antropologia, studi classici e letteratura

Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Fabio Dei  / Carocci Editore, 2023

Reviewed by Massimiliano Di Fazio, 

Greek, Demotic and Coptic papyri and ostraca in the Leiden Papyrological Institute

Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk, Joanne Vera Stolk  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, 

Romans and natives in the Danubian provinces (1st-6th C. AD)

Lucrețiu Mihailescu-Bîrliba, Ioan Piso  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023

Reviewed by Amia Davis, 

Vice in ancient philosophy: Plato and Aristotle on moral ignorance and corruption of character

Karen Margrethe Nielsen  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jay R. Elliott, 

Der Rand der Welt. Die Vorstellungen der Griechen von den Grenzen der Welt in archaischer und klassischer Zeit

Daniel Fallmann  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023

Reviewed by Luuk de Boer, 

The office of “magister militum” in the 4th century CE. A study into the impact of political and military leadership on the later Roman Empire

Christopher Bendle  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by David Woods, 

Empédocle sur le chemin des dieux

Jean-Claude Picot  / Les Belles lettres, 2022

Reviewed by Leon Wash,